As a former Special Forces Officer I understand his frustration, Although it was back in the day it appears that nothing has changed, in fact its probably worse now!
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REPUBLICANS PUSHED FAST-TRACK WITHOUT PUBLIC CONSENT …
This series of bills or agreements is a total disaster for the middle and lower classes and a boondoggle for the rich.
OBAMA TO REGULATE ‘DIVERSITY’ IN WHITE SUBURBS
Its all about “Fundamentally Changing America” just like he said he would. What did you think he meant given his background?
Wonder Why Obama ISIS Policy Is Failing In Iraq? Watch Him Ignore The Iraqi President At The G7…
Obama has only had one goal in his presidency and is to destroy the United States and its Constitution. Sadly the fools that elected him didn’t care and so he has been very successful in achieving his goal and I would put him at 75% 18 months to go..
A descent into darkness by our special operations forces
I am a former Green Beret of the Vietnam era where I spent 4 months in Vietnam as the XO of A-341 Bu Dop on the border of Cambodia in ‘67 until I was wounded and sent back to the states (the World as it was known back then). My total service was 4 years with the final rank of Captain. Some 20 years after getting out and now with some time on my hands I joined several military association one of which was the Special Forces Association mostly comprising Vietnam era vets (all Green Berets) with only a few from the WOT, or whatever they call it now.
A few years ago we had a current SF officer (field grade) attended a meeting and he gave us a briefing (unclassified) on the current situation with the current wars. I was shocked when he told me, when I talked to him, that he didn’t care who he was going after, he was only glad that he was “able to practice his art.” That maybe but when conducting unconventional warfare it must be done very cautiously as it is way too easy to get out of hand, and it has.
I don’t blame the military as much as the politicians in particular the commander in Chief the President. Without a clear and achievable mission the results are never good and the ROE (Rules Of Engagement) make for very difficult missions that are micro managed from the very top. As this post explains we are using our military as assassins and with a few exceptions that is wrong. What is also wrong is using Drones as assassination platforms especially when they really never know whom they are killing.
Two things led to this situation the first is the elimination of the draft and the second was outsourcing much of the military labor to sub contractors. The elimination of the draft produced a professional military which is not good and the second created paramilitary of private companies that recruited special operations and other highly training operators who became an under the table US military, without much oversight. Both of these have allowed the politicians to conduct operations that may seem legitimate but are not. The result of this will be a military that will not see anything wrong with conducting operations in the interior of the country.
Summary: Only slowly have Americans begun to see the dark thing done in our name during our post-9/11 wars. For years we tightly closed our eyes. We told ourselves that only terrorists were killed, or fighters “on the battlefield” — plus a few civilians as collateral damage. Slowly those lies get debunked and we see the institutionalized assassination machinery created in our military – dirtying our reputation, operationally ineffective, and strategically counterproductive. But it doesn’t matter what we think, for the war has slipped beyond civilian control (as wars often do). {2nd of 2 posts today.}
Member of Special Operations Task Force Southeast at Base Tarin in Afghanistan, 7 Aug 2012. By James Ginther.
Contents
- SEAL Team 6: quiet killings.
- Elite soldiers become assassins.
- Assassination seldom works.
- Women can fight and kill.
- There are alternatives.
- For More Information.
(1) SEAL Team 6: quiet killings
The New York Times gave…
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When the Wicked Rule A Nation
The Godless are ruling America right now and that must change or we will lose our souls for not getting rid of them when we know better.
Vitter’s Student Data Privacy Bill Gains Grassroots Support
MAY 14, 2015 BY SHANE VANDER HART
U.S. Senator David Vitter (R-LA) introduced the “Student Privacy Protection Act,” a bill that addresses problems with FERPA and would amend the General Education Provisions Act to strengthen student privacy. Numerous grassroots activists representing 32 different organizations released a joint statement.
“Parents are right to feel betrayed when schools collect and release information about their kids. This is real, sensitive information – and it doesn’t belong to some bureaucrat in Washington D.C.,” Vitter said. “We need to make sure that parents and students have complete control over their own information.”
The bill summary Vitter’s office released lists four actions this bill would implement if passed.
Rolling Back Department of Education Regulations:
- The Student Privacy Protection Act would reinstate FERPA’s original protections by clarifying who can access student data and what information is accessible. It also requires explicit authority for authorized representatives to conduct audits and evaluations of education programs.
- ED regulations in these three areas expanded the amount of information available without prior consent of a parent or student, as well as when and to whom that information could be released
Ensuring Parental Consent in All Cases
- The bill implements new, more robust guidelines, in order to protect student privacy, for schools and educational agencies to release education records to third parties, even in cases of recordkeeping.
- These entities will be required to gain prior consent from students or parents and implement measures to ensure records remain private. Further, educational agencies, schools, and third parties will be held liable for violations of the law through monetary fines.
Extending Privacy Protections to Home School Students
- FERPA does not currently apply to students who do not attend a traditional education institution, such as students who are homeschooled, despite some states requiring homeschoolers to file information with their school district.
- This bill extends FERPA’s protections to ensure records of homeschooled students are treated equally.
Limits Appending Data and Collection of Additional Information
- The bill prohibits educational agencies, schools, and the Secretary of Education from including personally identifiable information obtained from Federal or State agencies through data matches in student data.
- Federal education funds will be prohibited from being used to collect any psychological or behavioral information through any survey or assessment.
Below is the joint statement and the groups represented.
We; the undersigned groups that have grave concerns about the loss of student and family data privacy, psychological profiling, and career tracking related to the Common Core standards, aligned state tests and longitudinal data systems; are grateful to Senator David Vitter for introducing and do strongly support The Student Privacy Protection Act.
This legislation provides important protections in the following areas:
- Rolling back the disastrous extra-congressional regulatory changes that vastly expanded access of third parties to our children’s personally identifiable data, now limiting that access and requiring parental consent in all cases
- Holding educational agencies, schools, and third parties liable for violations of the law through monetary fines, damages, and court costs
- Prohibiting psychological or attitudinal profiling of students or gathering of sensitive family information via any assessments, including academic assessments or surveys
- Extending data protections for homes chooled students required to submit educational data to public school districts
- Prohibiting educational agencies, schools, and the Secretary of Education from including personally identifiable information obtained from Federal or State agencies through data matches in student data.
- Banning Federal education funds to states or districts that film, record, or monitor students or teachers in the classroom or remotely without parent or adult student and teacher consent.
We strongly urge the senators of our respective states to co-sponsor this critically important piece of legislation and our congressional representatives to author and co-sponsor this bill in the US House.
Organizations supporting:
- American Principles in Action
- Concerned Women for America Legislative Action Committee
- Eagle Forum
- Education Liberty Watch
- Home School Legal Defense Association
- Women on the Wall
- Special Ed Advocates to Stop Common Core
- Stop Early Childhood Common Core
- Arkansans for Education Freedom
- Arkansas Against Common Core
- The Florida Stop Common Core Coalition
- Florida Parents RISE
- The Tea Party Network
- Georgians to Stop Common Core
- Opt Out Georgia
- Idahoans for Local Education
- Hoosiers Against Common Core
- Iowa RestorEd
- Iowa for Student Achievement
- Kansans Against Common Core
- Louisiana Against Common Core
- Common Core Forum
- Stop Common Core Massachusetts
- Stop Common Core in Michigan, Inc.
- Minnesotans Against Common Core
- Missouri Coalition Against Common Core
- South Dakotans Against Common Core
- Tennessee Against Common Core
- Truth in Texas Education
- Truth in Catholic Education
- WV Against Common Core
- Wyoming Citizens Opposing Common Core
Ellen Nakashima: With a Series of Major Hacks, China Builds a Database on Americans
What they may also be doing is getting information on those they will need to eliminate after they take us over.
China hacked into the federal government’s network, compromising four million current and former employees
Ellen Nakashima reports: China is building massive databases of Americans’ personal information by hacking government agencies and U.S. health-care companies, using a high-tech tactic to achieve an age-old goal of espionage: recruiting spies or gaining more information on an adversary, U.S. officials and analysts say.
“This is part of their strategic goal — to increase their intelligence collection via big data theft and big data aggregation. It’s part of a strategic plan.”
— U.S. government official, on condition of anonymity
Groups of hackers working for the Chinese government have compromised the networks of the Office of Personnel Management, which holds data on millions of current and former federal employees, as well as the health insurance giant Anthem, among other targets, the officials and researchers said.
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Taking ‘America’ Out of US History
Subject: NY Post: Taking ‘America’ Out of US History
A stellar group of American historians and academics released a milestone open letter Tuesday in protest of deleterious changes to the Advanced Placement US History (or APUSH) exam.
The signatories are bold intellectual bulwarks against increasing progressive attacks in the classroom on America’s unique ideals and institutions.
Parents in my state of Colorado have been mocked and demonized for helping to lead the fight against the anti-American changes to APUSH. But if there’s any hope at all in salvaging local control over our kids’ curriculum, it’s in the willingness of a broad coalition of educators and parents to join the front lines for battles exactly like this one.
As the 55 distinguished members of the National Association of Scholars explained this week, the teaching of American history faces “a grave new risk.”
So-called “reforms” by the College Board, which holds a virtual monopoly on AP testing across the country, “abandon a rigorous insistence on content” in favor of downplaying “American citizenship and American world leadership in favor of a more global and transnational perspective.”
The framework eschews vivid, content-rich history lessons on the Constitution for “such abstractions as ‘identity,’ ‘peopling,’ ‘work, exchange and technology,’ and ‘human geography’ while downplaying essential subjects, such as the sources, meaning and development of America’s ideals and political institutions.”
The scholars, who hail from institutions ranging from Notre Dame and Stanford to the University of Virginia, Baylor, CUNY, Georgetown and Ohio State, decried the aggressive centralization of power over how teachers can teach the story of America.
This is not a bug. It’s a feature.
These so-called reforms by the College Board, after all, are part and parcel of a radical upheaval in testing, textbooks and educational technology. It’s no coincidence College Board President David Coleman supervised the Beltway operation that drafted, disseminated and profits from the federal Common Core standards.
The social-justice warriors of government education have long sought, as the NAS signatories correctly diagnosed it, “to de-center American history and subordinate it to a global and heavily social-scientific perspective.”
Their mission isn’t to impart knowledge, but to instigate racial, social and class divisions. Their mission is not to assimilate new generations of students into the American way of life, but to turn them against capitalism, individualism and American exceptionalism in favor of left-wing activism and poisonous identity politics.
Teachers, according to the late far-left historian Howard Zinn, aim to “empower” student collectivism by emphasizing “the role of working people, women, people of color and organized social movements.” School officials aren’t facilitators of intellectual inquiry, but leaders of “social struggle.”
The APUSH critics make clear in their protest letter that they champion a “warts and all” pedagogical approach to their US history lessons. But they point out that “elections, wars, diplomacy, inventions, discoveries — all these formerly central subjects tend to dissolve into the vagaries of identity-group conflict” as a result of the history-exam overhaul.
‘‘Gone is the idea that history should provide a fund of compelling stories about exemplary people and events,” the scholars point out. “No longer will students hear about America as a dynamic and exemplary nation, flawed in many respects, but whose citizens have striven through the years toward the more perfect realization of its professed ideals.”
This is precisely why I dedicated the past two years to writing my latest book, “Who Built That: Awe-Inspiring Stories of American Tinkerpreneurs.”
When it comes to understanding our free-market economy, the Founding Fathers’ embrace of private profit as a public good, and the boundless entrepreneurial success stories of individual American achievement, our children’s diet is woefully unbalanced.
Reclaiming our kids’ minds begins long before students reach the AP US history classroom. Restoration begins at home.
Afterburner with Bill Whittle: ‘The Tomorrowland Lie’
Apparently George Clooney is in a new movie entitled Tomorrowland. In Bill Whittle’s new Afterburner video which is called “The Tomorrowland Lie” he takes on the message of this movie.
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